Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week softball (minus its rover) was brought back indoors, stripped of its aliases and launched as a big-time winter sport. Patterned after major-league baseball's setup, the National Professional Indoor Baseball League sold franchises to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Each...
In 1912 Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw...
Last week Mr. Cummings cut the umbilical cord between his bank and RFC, announced that Continental Illinois would buy back the last $25,000,000 of its preferred in one batch.
In 1902 a portly, potbellied, black-mustachioed Philadelphia lawyer named John Graver Johnson (tops among U. S. corporation lawyers and trust protectors of his time) drew up a noteworthy document. It was an iron-clad lease by which Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. promised to pay 49 small traction companies $7...
> North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between 26¼-27¾.